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My girlfriend who is a nurse, has an eating disorder, hasn't eaten in 15 days, has been hospitalized in QA in Cosham and @Southern_NHSFT April House and various other local mental health services have basically refused her help, either due to BMI or some other such nonsense...
The only solution all of these groups have come up with is to force feed her with an NG tube! I'm sure that will do her mental health a world of good!...Is there anyone within the NHS who is willing to help? Here's a list of all the services I have been bounced from...
Local GP, 111 GP, 111 Mental health team, CaMHS, April House, QA (have at least taken her in as a patient to receive IV but beyond that referral referral referral) and more. What is she supposed to do?! At the moment she is just starving to death...
@Southern_NHSFT Please, someone in the NHS take her case and stop bouncing it around because none of you want the burden - she desperately needs help from a specialist! This is not good enough! #NHS #eatingdisordertwt #nhsnurse
#dumpthescales thank you @HopeVirgo for bringing attention to this issue!
Since writing this, she has now not eaten for 29 days. Today she is finally seeing a psychiatrist from the community mental health team, but she has had to wait 2 weeks for this appointment. I am not sure what the outcome will be, but I'm sad to say I don't hold much hope.
@carolinenokes Please see this thread about a nurse who works in Southampton General Hospital and has been directly affected by the issues your committee raised.
